A 12 YO boy from Maldives, suffering from congenital heart disease – PDA, visited Dr. Lal at Apollo Hospital, Chennai. Dr Lal, after going through the complete detail of the situation, decided to perform India’s 1st Non-surgical PDA Closure with modified postman technique, closing connection by plugging it with a special type of foam introduced in the opening through catheter and wires.

This proved to be an effective & cost-efficient process to close PDA in children without surgery. World’s Ist Non-surgical PDA closure was done in1967 andin1990, DrLal did Ist for India & Asia.